Publications

Making Sense of The MeK

July 4, 2019 Ilan I. Berman The National Interest

Quite simply, the MeK believes that, after forty years of active resistance, it has more “skin in the game” than any other personality or faction in the struggle against the Islamic Republic.

China Reform Monitor No. 1372

July 3, 2019

Marcist students vanish before May Day;
Venezuela uses Chinese vehicles to quash protests;
Pakistan arrests Chinese citizens for human trafficking;
China's digital serfs rise up;
Sichuan teachers protests over poor pay

China Reform Monitor No. 1371

July 2, 2019

Ex-CIA agent turned Chinese spy pleads guilty;
Pentagon: China to build overseas bases to protect BRI;
Beijing makes moves in the Arctic;
Wikipedia now banned in all languages;
China's role in the F-35

Dictator Demise Study

June 28, 2019

The Dictator Demise study was conducted in association with Post Putin: Seccession, Stability, and Russia's Future by Herman Pirchner and a condensed version is found in that book's appendix (referenced therein as the Azinheira study). 

The Rise of Russia’s Hi-Tech Military

June 26, 2019 Samuel Bendett Fletcher Security Review

[T]he United States should be aware of key adversarial developments such as Russia’s emerging unmanned, autonomous, and AI capabilities, and prepare itself in terms of appropriate capabilities, tactics, and plans.  

Russia Reform Monitor No. 2312

June 10, 2019

Russia's agencies pose tempting cyber targets;
Islamic State funder detained;
More on the Kremlin-church connection;
Russia versus the rap game;
Russia buzzes the Arctic, again

Global Islamism Monitor No. 66

June 6, 2019

For Hamas, necessity is the mother of invention;
ISIS rears its head in Russia's hinterlands;
Afghan Islamists versus education;
Extreme Islam on the rise at Indonesia's universities;
Religious reform, Saudi style

Iran Democracy Monitor 196

June 5, 2019

Getting serious about Iran's influence in Syria;
Wheither Iran's proxy network;
Back to business as usual in Gaza;
Child marragiages remain popular in Iran;
Amid mounting economic hardship, regime corruption continues

China Reform Monitor No. 1370

May 29, 2019 Joshua Eisenman

Belatedly, some new attention to Xi's party line;
India backs out of the SCS energy game...;
...while Beijing deepends its stake there;
The high price of veteran protests;
Malaysia to revive major China-linked property project

China Reform Monitor No. 1369

May 10, 2019 Joshua Eisenman

U.S.-Taiwan talks to counter China's influence;
China's naval moves cause tempers to flare in Manila;
F-16 sales to Taiwan on hold while Trump seeks China trade deal;
Taiwan's President visits Hawaii
China clamps down on foreign websites